R.N.C.: Boring Television Show a Threat to Even More Boring Television Show

Republican National Committee chairman and Latin textbook Reince Priebus is not happy about CNN and NBC airing two separate documentaries about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Why? Does Reince Priebus have previously existing plans to catch up on The Bachelorette that night but knows he will have to watch the stupid documentary because of work or whatever? Not quite, but close: “In separate letters to NBC Chairman Robert Greenblatt and CNN President Jeff Zucker, Priebus called each documentary a ‘thinly veiled attempt at putting a thumb on the scales of the 2016 presidential election,’” CBS News reports.

Priebus is fighting back by threatening to pull the only bit of programming that makes watching two separate documentaries about Hillary Clinton seem appealing: “If they have not agreed to pull this programming prior to the start of the R.N.C.’s Summer Meeting on August 14,” Priebus wrote, “I will seek a binding vote stating that the R.N.C. will neither partner with these networks in 2016 primary debates nor sanction primary debates they sponsor.”

This is troubling news for many Americans—Americans who might hope to live in a nation where neither two separate documentaries about Hillary Clinton nor scenes from the Republican National Convention would be televised. Unfortunately it currently seems to be an either-or situation.